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Media control as source of political power: The role of oligarchs in electoral authoritarian regimes

媒体控制作为政治权力的来源：寡头在选举威权政权中的作用

基本信息

批准号：
391270526
负责人：
Professor Dr. Heiko Pleines
金额：
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依托单位：
Forschungsstelle Osteuropa an der Universität Bremen
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2016-12-31 至 2020-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/391270526?language=en
关键词：
Media control source political power

项目摘要

In hybrid political regimes the manipulation of media reporting is one of the major battlegrounds for political power. In countries ranging from Venezuela over Russia to Turkey increasing authoritarian tendencies have started with pressure on independent media and their owners, who in many cases are powerful business people.The general assumption in the literature is that business tycoons in authoritarian regimes use their media assets to negotiate better deals with the incumbent elite in exchange for support of the government agenda by their media. However, this assumption is obviously challenged in situations when (1) the interests of the ruling political elites go against the interests of media-owning business tycoons or when (2) the legitimacy of the political regime is questioned by the people through mass protests. Moreover, it is regularly assumed that media ownership gives direct control over media reporting, implying that ownership leads to the desired message being efficiently produced by the media. Within the proposed research project we will test this assumption by examining the media and journalists as agents rather than mouthpieces of the owners. We will also study the strategic narrative used by business elites in order to get a better understanding of the impact of their media control not just on narrow political power struggles, but also on the broader framing of political events and on the political regime.None of the authors claiming the political relevance of media ownership by business tycoons has so far made the indeed demanding effort to systematically assess the actual impact of ownership on media reporting, and most importantly, changes in the framing of events, when the interests of business tycoons collide with those of the political elite, forcing the business tycoons to adjust their strategies. The proposed research project will systematically and thoroughly analyse the instrumentalization of mass media by business tycoons during contentious moments and the effects of that instrumentalization on the political regime. To this aim the project will employ a multi-method approach focusing most prominently on content analysis and interviews in a comparative case studies design. Due to the relatively large number of electoral authoritarian regimes with media-owning business tycoons, the post-Soviet region (with Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine as case countries) has been selected in a most similar cases-design.

在混合政治制度中，操纵媒体报道是争夺政治权力的主要战场之一。从委内瑞拉到俄罗斯再到土耳其，越来越多的独裁倾向始于对独立媒体及其所有者的压力。在许多情况下，独立媒体及其所有者都是有权势的商人。文献中的一般假设是，独裁政权中的商业大亨利用他们的媒体资产与现任精英谈判更好的交易，以换取他们的媒体对政府议程的支持。但是，在（1）政治精英的利益与拥有媒体的商业巨头的利益发生冲突，或者（2）民众通过大规模抗议活动对政权的合法性提出质疑的情况下，这一假设显然会受到挑战。此外，人们通常认为，媒体所有权直接控制媒体报道，这意味着所有权导致媒体有效地制作所需的信息。在拟议的研究项目中，我们将通过检查媒体和记者作为代理人而不是所有者的喉舌来验证这一假设。我们还将研究商业精英使用的战略叙事，以便更好地了解他们对媒体的控制不仅对狭隘的政治权力斗争的影响，到目前为止，没有一位声称商业大亨拥有媒体的政治相关性的作者做出了真正艰巨的努力，系统地评估了媒体所有权的实际影响。媒体报道的所有权，以及最重要的是事件框架的变化，当商业巨头的利益与政治精英的利益发生冲突时，迫使商业巨头调整策略。拟议的研究项目将系统和彻底地分析商业巨头在有争议的时刻利用大众媒体的情况以及这种利用对政治制度的影响。为此，该项目将采用多种方法，在比较案例研究设计中，最突出地侧重于内容分析和访谈。由于选举独裁政权与媒体拥有的商业大亨相对较多，后苏联地区（与哈萨克斯坦，俄罗斯和乌克兰作为案例国家）被选为最相似的案例设计。